... cover-ups which followed. (I even had Len Deighton's Jackdaw version of Rush to Judgement with its very own pop-up model of Dealey Plaza!) The Los Angeles Times reports another mysterious disappearance of evidence in the Robert Kennedy case. A fifteen year-old amateur photographer called Jamie Scott Enyart was present at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles where RFK was killed. He took three rolls of photographs. Most of his shots were of Kennedy's victory speech (RFK had just won the California primary and looked set to win the Democratic Party nomination and would have challenged Richard Nixon in the 1968 Presidential election). Enyart's films were confiscated by police investigators. When he tried to get them back he ...

... Misc reviews These reviews of mine were written for other publications. Robin Ramsay Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011, £20.00, h/b. After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and re- examining the previous inquiries, Susan Williams still cannot tell us who did kill US Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, in 1961. Nor how it was done. Nor, for certain, that the plane crash in the Congo which killed him and everyone else on board, wasn't an accident. Hardly anyone still believes the official version ...

... former British prime minister would come on the programme, Adams could appear. Wilson had Alzheimers; Callaghan never liked us; and Edward Heath, who later appeared twice on After Dark,(15) couldn't make it. So that was the end of it. Except that the heightened feelings of that year (the Gibraltar shootings followed by killings at two funerals, 'Death on the Rock', Lisburn, Ballygawley and other bombs) had led, only a month previously, to Mrs Thatcher appealing to the British media to withhold publicity from IRA sympathisers. A spokesman for the IBA said, 'The fact that After Dark is a live programme means there is no editorial control over ...

... own best interests. Under fire, they 'cowered' – as opposed to sheltering, which was what white men did. They 'lounged' a lot. Instead of shouting, they 'hollered'. While Britain used 'covert intelligence', they 'spied' treacherously. Their attacks were 'heartless' and 'cowardly'. They were addicted to 'fighting, killing and treachery', usually for lucre, or under the influence of 'gat' (khat, a chewed stimulant). Under interrogation, they emitted 'bloodcurdling squeals' – not 'cries'. Cairo Radio didn't just broadcast propaganda, but 'spouted' it, 'gutterally'. Their supporters – at the UN, for example – 'ranted' ...

... one of his first international trips to meet his CIA spymasters in autumn of 1982 according to intelligence sources in Dublin". (Could be a smear). Lyn Macrey had been approached first by letter and later had seven visits from a 'Stuart Delroy' who said he was born in Zambia and worked for the Institute. Nairac Linked to Killing of IRA Members in Republic? Security forces in Ulster are investigating claims (or looking the other way) that Capt. Robert Nairac was involved in the killing of IRA members in the Republic during the mid-seventies. (Sunday News 27th November 1983) Capt. Nairac, the SAS officer who was abducted and killed by the Provisional IRA ...

... of war with Iran Dr. Roger Cottrell Preamble In November 2011 claims emerged of an unlikely assassination plot against the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the US.1 According to the FBI, an alcoholic car salesman in Texas, Manssor Arbasier, with a spurious family connection to a member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, plotted with the Mexican Los Zetas drug cartel to kill the Saudi ambassador on orders from forces within the Iranian State.2 The source of these allegations was a Mexican gangster, already facing criminal charges on an unrelated matter, who was coerced to offer his services as an assassin for $1.5 million by the FBI. Although clearly a fabrication, this alleged 'plot' has led to further punitive sanctions ...

... story of a burglar who took at most 50p, leaving behind jewellry; who for some reason abducted the householder, in her own car, driving her, by the most public and inconvenient route possible to a remote lane; carried her, without leaving any trace, across a field so boggy that in horse-ploughing days it was proverbial for killing plough horses, to a copse, desposited there to die of cold; whipped back to the lane, left the car, and ran back to Shrewsbury (so drawing attention to himself and being seen by a school excursion).' Whatever else the case is-- even in the category 'unsolved murders', let alone the ...

... , much of it finding its way into the hands of the heroin hierarchy which has a formidable grip on Pakistani domestic politics. Even Andrew Eiva of the right-wing Federation for American Action on Afghanistan estimates that some 70% of US arms goes astray. (2) But the damage to the Afghan supply line may go further than just those killed in the crash. If the joint American/Pakistan inquiry blames sabotage or a lack of security for the crash, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Gul will almost certainly have to step down as head of the powerful Inter Services Intelligence organisation, ISI. As head of ISI, Gul is the key figure involved in the training and equipping ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 39) Summer 2000 Last| Contents| Next Issue 39 The death of Diana: an update Terry Hanstock In this article I amplify and update my account of the crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed and Henri Paul which appeared in Lobster 37. Since it was written there have been a number of interesting developments- the publication of Trevor Rees-Jones' book; James Hewitt's impromptu recreation of the fatal car journey; Mohamed Al Fayed accusing the Duke of Edinburgh of being the mastermind behind a plot to murder Diana and Dodi; and the possibility of inquests on Diana and Dodi taking place. A correction A significant correction to ...